2,000 years of music

2,000 years of music

A concise history of the developmemt of music from the earliest
times through the 18th century
Compiled and arranged by Dr. Curt Sachs with various performersDecca "Gold Label Series" DX-106 [LPx2, mono]Parlophone / Decca P 525 [LPx2, mono]Folkways Records FT 3700 [LPx2, mono]

Contents:

LP-1, side 1
1. Greek Music

Mesomedes

Hymn to the sun

Seikilos

Epitaph

2. Jewish Music

Anon., trad.: Jewish Chant

Kaddish

Abodah

Esther (exc.)

3. Gregorian Chant

Gregorian chant

Misit Dominus verbum suum

4. Early Polyphonic Music

Anon., 12th c.

Congaudeant Catholici

5. The Troubadours

Bernart de Ventadorn

Pois preyatz me, senhor

Raimbaut de Vaqueiras

Kalenda Maya

6. The Minnesingers

Der unvürzaghtete

Der kuninc Rodolp minnet Gott

Walther von der Vogelweide

Nun alerst ich mir werde

Witzlav von Rügen

Wê, ich han gedacht

LP-2, side 1
7. Early Netherlands Music - About 1450

Guillaume Dufay

Gloria in Excelsis

8. Early Netherlands Music - About 1500

Josquin des Prés

Et incarnatus est

9. German Choral Music - About 1500

Heinrich Finck

Christ ist erstanden

10. German Choral Music of the Reformation

A. Von Bruck

Aus tiefer Not

11. The Zenith of Religious Polyphony in the 16th Century -
G. P. da Palestrina

Giovanni Perluigi Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli

Sanctus

12. The Zenith of Religious Polyphony in the 16th Century -
Orlando di Lasso

Comments:
Information from owned LP (Decca & Folkways)
The Decca LP, released in 1950, is one of the first LP recordings
of early music. Previously issued as 78
rpms, these were the first historical attempt to systematicaly
record what can be called "Early Music". Thanks to Jeff
Vilencia who previously gave me the opportunity to listen to a
superbly dubbed version on tape of some of the original 78 rpms.